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Trinamool Congress National Joint Secretary Derek O’Brien connected Saturday (June 13, 2026) dismissed speculation astir the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) merging with different governmental party, terming specified reports “fake news”.
His remarks travel amid ongoing speculation astir the party’s aboriginal course, which has been grappling with an interior situation pursuing its decision successful the West Bengal Assembly polls.
“Let maine enactment an extremity to this fake quality astir the AITC merging with immoderate different party. Baseless. Yes, that’s the cleanable connection utilized by my person K.C. Venugopal,” Mr. O’Brien told PTI.
Rumours of a imaginable merger gathered gait aft a bid of meetings betwixt elder leaders of the Trinamool Congress and the Congress successful New Delhi this week.
TMC main Mamata Banerjee met Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026), a time aft the INDIA bloc gathering successful the nationalist capital. The Congress had besides released a photograph of the 2 leaders greeting each different warmly astatine the absorption confederation meeting.
While neither broadside disclosed details of the Mamata-Sonia meeting, sources said Ms. Banerjee stressed the request for absorption unity and pitched for the INDIA bloc to enactment unneurotic to instrumentality up issues concerning the nationalist and situation the BJP.
A time later, TMC nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee met the Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi.
Sources said the Rahul-Abhishek gathering was portion of the ongoing engagement betwixt the Congress and the TMC pursuing discussions held astatine the INDIA bloc gathering earlier this week.
Both the Congress and the TMC person dismissed speculation astir a merger, describing specified reports arsenic baseless and insisting that their caller interactions were aimed astatine strengthening absorption coordination.
